The Birthday Party

Local music promoter Nick Haines has come up trumps in a five-year campaign to get a St Kilda laneway named after Melbourne musician, and former Nick Cave collaborator, Rowland S Howard. Howard, who played with Cave in The Birthday Party and famously penned the song Shivers, which went on to be famously covered by The

Thousands of dollars worth of collected vinyl, including rare first edition records by Nick Cave and his late guitarist Rowland S. Howard, have reportedly been raided from Howard’s girlfriend’s home in Melbourne. As Fairfax reports, about 200 records were stolen from the St Kilda home of Genevieve McGuckin, Howard’s girlfriend of 32 years. Among the

The coveted ‘Greatest Guitarist of all Time’ throne has been awarded to many a musician over the years, it’s really all a matter of who you ask. Most recently, News Corp decided to poll Australia’s best guitarists, a feat previously attempted by Australian Guitar Magazine back in 2012. While AGM‘s top spot went to the